‎SELTMAN Charles‎
‎WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY‎

‎Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and North Africa‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 330, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503617732.‎

‎Summary This collection of essays examines the lives of women of all classes during the centuries during and after the 'fall of Rome' across the various 'Barbarian' kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean and Europe. In order to address an important gap in current scholarship on women and gender in the post-Roman Western kingdoms, these contributions were assembled based on a series of panels presented at the Leeds International Medieval Conference in 2022. The volume focuses particularly on a bottom-up perspective, to analyse the place, role, and experiences of women in the daily life of the period, and on how such an approach might alter our view of the social, cultural, and religious history of these kingdoms. Limited by our sources, however, we also investigate the absence of women and gender concerns in our texts, and look for alternative fonts of knowledge, such as material culture, archaeology, poetry and epigraphy. The collection enriches our knowledge of women and gender in early medieval Western Europe and North Africa, especially by paying close attention to the social and cultural realities of lower-class women during this period. TABLE OF CONTENTS Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction MAIJASTINA KAHLOS AND RIC FOURNIER 'Forced Mobility' of Servants and Slave-Girls in Late Antique Christianity JESSICA VAN'T WESTEINDE Has geminas artes: Textiles and Poetry in the Work of Attusia Lucana Sabina HOPE WILLIARD Women in Vandal Africa ERIC FOURNIER Seeking Female Experience in the Verse of Vandal-Era Carthage MARK TIZZONI Some Preliminary Evidence from the Letters of Avitus of Vienne on Women and Gender in the Burgundian Hegemony BECCA GROSE Grace, Free Will, and 'Unavoidable' Sex: Women in Service in the Early Medieval West LISA BAILEY Images of Women Dissident Ritualists in the Post-Roman World: Comparisons and Continuities MAIJASTINA KAHLOS The Late Antique Widow: Liberalitas, Exemplarity and Conflict MICHAEL HANAGHAN Memories of Women Martyrs in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia MAR MARCOS Threshold Spaces: Making Female Ascetic Communities in Visigothic-Era Baetica JAMIE WOOD Material Perspectives on Women's Monasticism in Visigothic Iberia GRACE STAFFORD Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom LAURY SARTI Conclusions BONNIE EFFROS Index‎

‎Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves. Women in classical antiquity. ‎

‎ New York, Schocken Books, 1976. ‎

‎265 p. Paberback 20 cm ‎

‎Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves. Women in classical antiquity. Ldn., Hale & Co., (1976). XIII,265 p. Half cloth. 21 cm (Inscr. on frontflyleaf erased; name on title) ‎

‎Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 Hardback, X+262 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503517780.‎

‎The essays within this volume unite study of the medieval household with that of women's religious practices, providing a new avenue of enquiry the history of the church. Both as God's house and as the dwellings of his monastic and other followers, the history of the church is in part that of an institution conceived as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious. This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women's religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church's roles in women's history to the impact of women's householding on the history of the church. Languages : English.‎